Nobel joy

From
Tara Shears

I’m so excited that this year’s Nobel prize in physics has been awarded for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, and that British physicist Peter Higgs and his Belgian counterpart François Englert have been recognised for devising it (12 October, p 6).

Predicting, and then discovering, the Higgs boson is one of the very greatest achievements of modern physics. It’s a wonderful idea that opens our eyes to the deepest nature of the universe. That it has turned out to be true is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever witnessed.